Birlinn, Limited 2006 Paperback. Very good. Previous owner's nameplate inside. Birlinn, Limited 2006 Paperback ISBN 1841584576 9781841584577 [NZ]

Birlinn, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Birlinn, Limited ISBN 1841584576 9781841584577 [GB]

ISBN10: 1841584576, ISBN13: 9781841584577, [publisher: Birlinn Ltd] Softcover Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> History is a story of loss and gain, and of solidity and fluidity. The original meaning of the Greek word histor was something like 'eye- witness', especially in a trial or investigation of any sort. History was what you saw or what others reported they themselves had seen. As dating formalised and the past lengthened into decades, royal reigns, centuries, ages, millennia, the meaning of history changed. It became an enquiry. And much was lost. Unlike Julius Caesar, historians no longer fought in the battles they recorded and described, or, like Herodotus and Thucydides, spoke to people who had watched great events unfold before them. The authority of more modern historians derived not from the sense of having been, seen and conquered but from a promise to get the facts straight and in the correct order. What was gained was perspective, a stronger sense of the sequence of history, how one thing happened and led to another. And also volume. Once historians had slipped out of the need to have been there and seen it, an avalanche of history rumbled dow
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Birlinn Ltd 2006 paperback Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.